The Legend of the Wandering King -- by Laura García (Author) (Book - Child)
Product Description "Walid was a model prince: handsome, intelligent, skilled in the arts of warfare and poetry. But the kingdom boasted one greater poet than he, and out of jealousy Walid cursed the...
All Ages
Age groups: Adolescence (13-21)
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth -- by James Giblin (Author) (Book - Child)
Product Description "Edwin Booth and his younger brother John Wilkes Booth were, in many ways, two of a kind. They were among America's finest actors, having inherited their father's commanding stage...
Ages 9 years - 12 years.
The Witch's Boy -- by Michael Gruber (Author) (Book - Parent/Child)
Product Description "This critically acclaimed tale of a witch and her goblin-child is wholly original, and the legendary characters of old who touch their story -- Cinderella, Rapunzel,...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Guys Write for Guys Read -- by Jon Scieszka (Author) (Book - Child)
Product Description "This fast-paced, high-energy collection of short works features today's most popular writers and illustrators writing about what it means to be a guy. Contributors include Chris...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Princess Academy -- by Shannon Hale (Author) (Book - Child)
Product Description "Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village...
Ages 9 years - 12 years.
Flush -- by Carl Hiaasen (Author) (Book - Child)
Product Description "You know it's going to be a rough summer when you spend Father's Day visiting your dad in the local lockup. Noah's dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is...
Ages 9 years - 12 years.
An Innocent Soldier -- by Josef Holub (Author) (Book - Parent/Child)
Product Description "Adam is a farmhand conscripted by Napoleon's army, which is gathering strength for its campaign against Russia. Sergeant Krauter makes Adam the victim of his most sadistic urges....
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
Totally Joe -- by James Howe (Author) (Book - Child)
From School Library Journal "Grade 6-8. Joe's teacher asks his seventh-grade class to write an alphabiography throughout the year, presenting themselves and their lives in entries from A to Z. Joe's...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)
The Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students. -- by Suzanne Jurmain (Author) (Book - Child)
Product Description "They threw rocks and rotten eggs at the school windows. Villagers refused to sell Miss Crandall groceries or let her students attend the town church. Mysteriously, her...
Ages 9 years - 12 years.
Leonardo da Vinci (Giants of Science) -- by Kathleen Krull (Author) (Book - Child)
Product Description "Leonardo da Vincis notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)